Let this day of your birth be for you an occasion
to give yourself a little more, a little better
to the Divine. Let your consecration be more total,
your devotion more ardent, your aspiration more
intense.
Open yourself to the New Light and walk with
a joyful step on the path.
Resolve on this day that it may be thus and the
day will not have passed in vain.
Blessings.

The Mother

It
is an occult phenomenon that occurs invariably, without
our knowledge, on this particular day of the year. The
soul leaves behind the body and journeys up and up till
it merges into the Source in order to replenish itself
and absorb from the Supreme Its Power, Light and Ananda
and comes down charged for a whole year to pass. Then
again and again... it continues like this year after year.

A grain of practice is worth a mountain of theories.
"Lord, on this anniversary day of my birth, grant
that the power to know changes in me into a power
to transform myself integrally. "

All extracts and quotations
from the written works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the
Photographs of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are
copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry-(605002 India